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Habib Ayeb

Fondateur de Layoun Prod

Biography

Habib Ayeb is a geographer, researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis, France and a committed documentary filmmaker.
A specialist in social geography, his main research areas cover issues related to food sovereignty, the environment, peasant issues, climate change, marginality and poverty, social change, and the role of the environment in the development of food security.

Filmography

Among his documentary films:

Om-Layoun (2021 – on the water issue in Tunisia)

Couscous: Graines de la Dignité (2017 – on food sovereignty)

Fellahin (2014 – on small-scale farmers’ resistance)

Gabes Labess (2014 - On environmental issues)

Mirages verts (2012 – on development models and pauperism)